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The Broken Magnet

Oh no! Lilly and Fred dropped one of their bar magnets while experimenting. Unfortunately it broke in half.
How will the two pieces of the magnet behave? Will they attract each other? Will they repel each other? Or have they completely lost their magnetic effects?

Broken magnet split between the north and the south pole.

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